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India’s Controversial TDS Crypto Tax Should Be Cut if the Government Wants to Boost Revenue, Transparency, Esya Centre Urges

The tax, a form of income tax known as TDS, has prompted as many as 5 million crypto traders to move their transactions offshore, and has cost the government a potential $420 million in revenue since it was introduced in July, 2022, according to the study by the Esya Centre. Source

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GAO finds controversial SEC guidance is subject to congressional oversight

United States Senator Cynthia Lummis has scored another one for crypto with a Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision issued on Oct. 31. The GAO found that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 should be subject to congressional review. That bulletin, issued in March 2022, has been a

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Blockchain investigator ZachXBT slams Gotbit over controversial services

Popular blockchain investigator says the firm’s leaked report shows “highly questionable services.” Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT called out Gotbit, a crypto market maker, for offering dubious services as the list of the firm’s services became public. In an X post on Sunday, Sept. 24, ZachXBT posted a screenshot of Gotbit’s services, which

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Controversial Euro CBDC Plan to Be Led by Stefan Berger, Architect of Landmark MiCA Crypto Law

The digital euro “is a solution looking for a problem and potentially only causes problems … it will only cause confusion amongst consumers and could undermine confidence in financial systems,” Hoogeveen said, although he acknowledged his party might not have enough votes to reject the plans outright. “We'll at least

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EU’s Data Act Still Contains Controversial Smart Contract Kill Switch, Despite Lobbying by Polygon, NEAR, Stellar, Cardano

Negotiators said they had struck a deal on the controversial text on June 28, shortly after organizations linked to numerous blockchains, including Stellar, Polygon, NEAR and Cardano, expressed their concerns in an open letter, but no text has been released until now. Source

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EU finalizes controversial smart contract kill switch rules under Data Act

The European Union (EU) legislators have reached an agreement to move ahead with the controversial Data Act that drew scrutiny from the crypto community earlier. The finalization of the deal was confirmed by EU’s Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton in a Tweet calling it a “milestone in reshaping the

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EU’s Controversial Data Act Finalized by Negotiators Despite Protest From Web3 Industry

“With the adjustments made to the text we are no longer addressing smart contracts in general but make this regulation applicable specifically to the execution of contractual clauses in the context of data sharing,” Damian Boeselager, a lawmaker who led negotiations for the European Parliament’s Green grouping, told CryptoX. Source

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